Mac OS X Security Update Released

Gross looking worm right? Well imagine if that gross looking "worm" got into your Mac OS X? Not good. Well, hopefully you won't have to worry about such a situation with the latest security update for the Mac OS X that Apple released today.

The update, dubbed Security Update 2010-005, is aiming to put a fixin' to a critical PDF vulnerability, by addressing a "heap buffer overflow" in how CoreGraphics manages PDF files. That vulnerability could give the go ahead to an "unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution" via a malicious PDF file.

Whether or not this is following in the footsteps of the PDF vulnerability on iOS 4 is unknown.

Additionally, Security Update 2010-005 also fixes a "stack buffer overflow" which would allow arbitrary code execution via a malicious embedded font. The PDF and font vulnerabilities were taken care of thanks to "improved bounds checking."

The update also contained various routine fixes for network security flaws.